T Quotes
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“To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.”
Source: The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae
“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.”
Source: Points of View
“To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.”
Source: How to Listen to God
“To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.”
“To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.”
“To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.”
“To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.”
“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.”
Source: Poetical works
“To have grown wise and kind is real success.”
“To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.”
Source: Self-interviews
“To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.”
“To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.”
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles
“To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.”
Source: American Dirt
“To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.”
Source: V.
“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”
“To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.”
“To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.”
“To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To have in this uncertain world some stay, which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence; and this stay it is, which gives that dignity to the manners, which shows that a person does not depend on mere human applause for comfort and satisfaction.”
Source: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
“To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.”
“To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.”
“To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does...When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right...Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.”
“To have joy, one must share it.”
“To have kids and not be there every night is tough.”
“To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.”
“To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck
“To have 'Known' means that dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') goes away. But in this case, dehadhyas has not gone and one has the intoxication of 'I know'; so what will become of him?”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.”
“To have learnt to live on the common level
Is better. No grand life for me,
Just peace and quiet as I grow old.
The middle way, neither great nor mean,
Is best by far, in name and practice.
To be rich and powerful brings no blessing;
Only more utterly
Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.”
Source: Medea
“To have lied is to have suffered.”
Source: The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo
“To have little is to possess.”
“To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.”
“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
“To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.”
Source: The Return of the Native
“To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.”
“To have loved, to have lost and to be so empty when love is forgotten and not shared is an empty heart that's always whispering "fill me"~bns”
“To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.”
Source: Ways to Disappear
“To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.”
“To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.”
“To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.”